Rail-chair



C. PASCAL.

RAIL CHAIR- APPLICATION man APR.5. I921.

1,399,572. Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

ATTOR UNITED STATES PATENT orrics.

. GHARLEQ JPASCJ-ltli, 0F MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

RAIL-CHAIR.

Application filed April 5,

A To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs PAsoAL, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and residing at 252 Sherbrooke street east, in the city and district of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Rail-Chair, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to a rail chair as through the dislocation of the joints in railway tracks due to weather and other conditlons; to insure a low cost of maintenance in this particular feature of roadway construction and at the same time furnish a joint of extremely simple and cheap parts; and generally to provide an efficient, a durable and a serviceable joint in railway lines.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a fragmentary sectional perspective View of rails in a line of railway showing the formation of the joint by means of the rail chair described herein. A

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of rail and rail chair assembled.

Fig. 3 is a perspective detail of the base of the rail chair.

Fig. at is a perspective detail of the brace plate of the rail chair.

Fig. 5 is a perspective detail of the filler bar.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

Referring to the drawings the rails 1 and 2 are shown as meeting end to end at 3 at or about the longitudinal center of the rail chair base 4.

The base at is formed with an overlap 5 from one of its longitudinal edges forming a rail base recess 6 adapted to receive the outer portion of one side of the rail base.

It will be seen that the one side 7 of the rail base projects for only a portion of its width into the recess 6, while the other side 8 of the rail base lies flat on the chair base 4t in the vicinity of the longitudinal upspeeification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec, 6, 1921.

1921. Serial No. 458,699.

standing rib 9 on the opposite side of the base 4 from the overlap 5, said rib 9 being undercut at 10 to receive the filler bar 11, the latter having the beveled edge 12 fitting into the under cut 10, and taking up the space necessarily left in inserting the rail base in its permanent recess on the other side of the base.

The screw holes 13 extend through the rib 9 in parts toward the ends respectively of the said ribs.

The brace plate 14 is in curved shape in cross section and at its lower end has the screw holes 13 for the insertion of the screws 16, which extend through the said brace plate 14 and rib 9 into the ties 17 and 18. The bolts 19 and nuts 20 hold the upper portion of the brace plate 14: to the necks 21 of the rails, there being 2 or more such bolts on each side of the meeting 3 of the rails 1 and 2.

The brace plate 14 extends upwardly and terminates under the head 23 of the units 1 and 2, thereby giving additional support as a brace from its fastening to the rib 9 to said rail head.

The spikes 24 are driven into the ties 17 and 18 and the heads 25 of said spikes reach over, on the one side, the brace plate 14 and, on the other side, the overlap 5.

It must be understood that in this invention slight changes may be made from the precise construction illustrated without departing from the spirit of the invention, though I am aware that there are other rail chairs having a distant resemblance to this invention, but so far as I know, there are none having the essential features of the rib and brace plate fastening, the overlap and the filler bar.

What I claim in my invention is:

1. In a rail chair a base plate having longitudinal overlap, extending upwardly from one side and forming a rail base recess and a longitudinal rib on the other side, a filler bar between the rail base and the longitudinal rib, a brace plate having screw fasteners joining to said rib, and bolts joining the brace plate to the rails.

2. In a rail chair, a base having a shallow rail recess on the one side and a longitudinal undercut upstanding rib on the other side, ties supporting said base, rails meeting end to end on said base, a beveled filler bar between said base and said rib and filling said undercut, a brace plate curved in cross section,

andextending from the said base to the under side of the head of the rail, screws inr serted through said brace plate and rib and extending into said ties and fastening said brace plate and said rib together, bolts and nuts securing said brace plate to said rails and spikes driven into said ties and having CHARLES PASCAL. 

